That FISA warrant on Page? FBI *knew* it was unfounded
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Four days before securing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant targeting the Trump campaign, the FBI was alerted that Trump adviser Carter Page had denied to an undercover informer ever knowing or meeting a key senior Russian official as agents were about to allege to a court, according to a text message made public Thursday by Senate investigators.
The text message was sent Oct. 17, 2016, from an FBI employee whose name was redacted to then-Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok, who was leading the Crossfire Hurricane probe on the now disproven Trump-Russia collusion.
The message, released by the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, provides the clearest evidence to date that FBI senior leaders were alerted to a key factual discrepancy in the FISA warrant before they got it approved from the court and they did not alert the judges.
The text message in question noted that an FBI confidential human source, now known to be professor Stefan Halper, had just interacted for two hours with Page, and that the Trump adviser had specifically denied ever knowing the Russian security official Igor Diveykin.
“He outright denied knowing Deveykin,” the FBI official texted Strzok, relaying details from Halper’s undercover interaction with Page, who was identified in the text message by his FBI codename “Dragon.” The text misspelled Diveykin’s name.
You can read the text message here.
https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2020-12/StrzokTextCarterPageHalper.pdfThe text message provides the first public evidence of just how high up the FBI chain of command this information was relayed and establishes that the warning was received before the FBI submitted and won the first FISA warrant targeting Page on Oct. 21, 2016.
In that warrant, Strzok’s team directly alleged that Page had met Diveykin and another sanctioned Russia official named Igor Sechin, based on information the FBI received from the now-disgraced dossier author Christopher Steele.
So, FBI had an undercover informer on Page ("They spied on my campaign!") and they knew he had no contact as alleged in the warrant.
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@jolly said in That FISA warrant on Page? FBI *knew* it was unfounded:
Somebody needs to go to jail.
Not gonna happen. The gummint protects itself.
Why do you think that Director Wray is slow-walking subpoenas?
That, by the way, is a rhetorical question.
